As the title says, I've changed the news and interests - taskbar widget option to disabled. But when I installed the ISO, the widget was still present and enabled, and when loading the image again in NTLite, the option is back to default.
There is no Windows Web Experience pack for me in components, as you can see in the screenshot attached...Personally, I remove it completely from the image by disabling "Windows Web Experience Pack". It's at Components, under Shell & Desktop.
In the XML, under "Remove Components" it's called "<c>microsoftwindows.client.webexperience 'Windows Web Experience Pack'</c>"
Hope this helps.